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Princeton's WordNet

  1. homonymic, homonymousadjective

    of or related to or being homonyms

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  1. homonymicadjective

    Having the same form (orthographic/phonetic) but unrelated meaning.

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  1. homonymic

    In linguistics, homonyms are words which are homographs (words that share the same spelling, regardless of pronunciation), or homophones (equivocal words, that share the same pronunciation, regardless of spelling), or both. Using this definition, the words row (propel with oars), row (a linear arrangement) and row (an argument) are homonyms because they are homographs (though only the first two are homophones): so are the words see (vision) and sea (body of water), because they are homophones (though not homographs). A more restrictive and technical definition requires that homonyms be simultaneously homographs and homophones – that is to say they have identical spelling and pronunciation, but with different meanings. Examples are the pair stalk (part of a plant) and stalk (follow/harass a person) and the pair left (past tense of leave) and left (opposite of right). A distinction is sometimes made between true homonyms, which are unrelated in origin, such as skate (glide on ice) and skate (the fish), and polysemous homonyms, or polysemes, which have a shared origin, such as mouth (of a river) and mouth (of an animal).The relationship between a set of homonyms is called homonymy, and the associated adjective is homonymous, homonymic, or in latin, equivocal. The adjective "homonymous" can additionally be used wherever two items share the same name, independent of how closely they are or are not related in terms of their meaning or etymology. For example, the name Ōkami is homonymous with the Japanese term for "wolf" (ōkami).

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  1. homonymic

    Homonymic refers to the quality or state of being a homonym. It describes words that are spelled the same and sound the same but have different meanings.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of homonymic in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of homonymic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7


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